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The latest smartphone OS data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows that for the three months ending August 2016, market share for both Android and iOS grew in EU5, representing 78.1% and 17.3% of smartphone sales, respectively. In the US, iOS increased 2.5 percentage points to 30.9%, but declined in Urban China, falling to 13.5% of smartphone sales. Android dropped 1.7 ... Read More »

Mobile payment has become a daily activity in China with the mobile wallets of AliPay and WeChat dominating those from handset makers like Apple, Huawei and LG according to the latest research from the Media and Services UX, (MSX) group at Strategy Analytics. Thee quarters (75%) of mobile payment users in China stated they use mobile payments in physical stores ... Read More »

Ericsson has announced that its M Commerce Interconnect (EMI) service will simplify mobile money payments and cash collection between mobile wallet provider Vodafone M Pesa and businesses. The first deployment under the deal will connect M-Pesa with the growing network of Grundfos safe water kiosks throughout Kenya and Tanzania, with other countries to follow. This integrated payment service simplifies payment ... Read More »

End user spending for the worldwide virtual personal assistant (VPA) enabled wireless speaker market will reach $2.1 billion by 2020, up from $360 million in 2015, according to Gartner. By 2020, 3.3 percent of global households are forecast to have adopted a VPA-enabled wireless speaker. “Last year, the VPA speaker market essentially consisted of end-user spending focused entirely on Amazon ... Read More »

India’s radio spectrum auction has concluded, raising far less for the government than it had hoped for. The auction raised just under USD9.9 billion, around 3�0% less than had been expected. Much of the blame was put down to the high reserve price applied to blocks of 700Mhz spectrum which put off bidders. Some 2,200 MHz of spectrum was offered, covering ... Read More »

Orange and Ericsson will develop 5G use cases and service scenarios, including technical alignment and external demonstrations. The partnership will enable 5G technology building blocks, proof of concepts, and pilots across Europe from 2017 onwards. This collaboration will also cover 4G to 5G solutions evolution, including energy and cost efficiencies, and use of Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function ... Read More »

According to the latest Worldwide Semiannual Mobility Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide mobility revenues are forecast to grow from $1.5 trillion in 2016 to more than $1.7 trillion in 2020. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.2%, or roughly $40 billion in annual revenue gains. �Mobility revenues will primarily come from consumer and enterprise ... Read More »

For more than a decade, engineers have been eyeing the finish line in the race to shrink the size of components in integrated circuits. They knew that the laws of physics had set a 5 nanometer threshold on the size of transistor gates among conventional semiconductors, about one quarter the size of high end 20 nanometer gate transistors now on ... Read More »

Samsung has boosted its Artificial Intelligence capabilities after it bought a company set up by the creator’s of Apple’s Siri assistant. Samsung said in a statement that it is buying Viv, a digital assistant. Viv Labs chief executive Dag Kittlaus was behind the development of AI technology which was later bought by Apple and turned into its Siri voice assistant. ... Read More »

Australia’s Optus has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Nokia to collaborate on the network evolution to 5G. As the two companies collaborate on the development of 5G, a key project will be a 5G trial using Optus’ 3500MHz spectrum, a globally harmonised band by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for mobile broadband usage. Optus and Nokia expect to ... Read More »

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